Kara Zor-El
Few characters in DC's vast history carry as much weight as Kara Zor-El, who burst onto the Silver Age scene in 1959's Superman #130, brought to life by Robert Bernstein and Curt Swan at a moment when the genre was crackling with imagination and possibility. Over an extraordinary span stretching across 67 years and 281 catalog appearances — nine of them recognized as key issues — she has proven herself one of DC's most enduring figures, sharing pages with the likes of Superman, Batman, Bruce Wayne, Green Lantern, and Clark Kent across beloved series from Superman to The Brave and the Bold to the charming all-ages delight Tiny Titans. That range alone tells you something: Kara Zor-El resonates whether a story is reaching for cosmic grandeur or pure-hearted fun. For any collector serious about the Silver Age or DC's deepest legacy characters, she is absolutely essential.
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Trivia
- In her earliest appearance, she was presented as older than Superman in a literal backstory sense because she had grown up on Krypton and actually remembered it, which distinguished her sharply from Clark Kent's alien-raised-on-Earth origin.en.wikipedia.org
- Supergirl's 1985 death in Crisis on Infinite Earths was not a routine comic-book turnover but a company-wide continuity move driven by DC's desire to make Superman the sole surviving Kryptonian.en.wikipedia.org
- She became a major behind-the-scenes continuity problem in later publishing history because DC eventually had to reintroduce and reconfigure Kara in multiple forms after Crisis, reflecting how difficult it was to keep a popular Supergirl version that fit DC's changing continuity rules.en.wikipedia.org
- Art Baltazar has written more of Kara Zor-El's comics than any other writer in our catalog — 28 issues.
Covers through the years — 1959–2026
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